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Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art
Ancient Greek artists pioneered in the allegorical use of personifications of political ideas, events, places, institutions, and peoples in visual arts. This book surveys and interprets these personifications within the intellectual and political climate of the golden age of Athens.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britiain Fascicule 23, Reading Museum Service (Reading Borough Council)
This catalogue completes the publication of the ancient Greek and Etruscan vases in the collection of the Reading Museum Service. It documents and illustrates chronologically more than 150 vases from across the ancient Mediterranean from Minoan to early Hellenistic. An Introduction by Jill Greenaway documents the interesting collections history.
The Case About Amy
An inspirational and telling story about a family's struggle to get equal educational opportunity for their deaf daughter.
Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method
Reinvigorates modernist analysis of myth in Virginia Woolf's fiction by illuminating Woolf's use of parataxis to engage both myth and contemporary social and political issues.
Brill's Companion to Aphrodite
Brill's Companion to Aphrodite brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in the study of Aphrodite—one of the best known, yet ambiguous and complex Graeco-Roman deities. The contributions, which reevaluate conventional approaches to this remarkable goddess, are thematically grouped in four parts according to aspects of the goddess: 'Aphrodite’s Identity’; ‘Aphrodite's Companions and Relations’; ‘The Spread of Aphrodite’s Cults’ and ‘The Reception of the Goddess.’ Each part draws on literary and visual sources, incorporates Greek, Roman, and later material, and ranges across places and periods—from prehistoric Cyprus and the Near East to the antiquities market in 19th century France. This book therefore crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, as well as the multiple aspects and characteristics of the goddess
Religion and Brazilian Democracy
Evangelical and Catholic groups are transforming Brazilian politics. This book asks why, and what the consequences are for democracy.
Weeping Willows
Weeping Willows is the heart-wrenching story of a womans journey in life as she struggles to escape the horrific past that continues to haunt her present life. Ryan and Naomi Palmer have been happily married for five years and both maintain steady careers that provide financial stability for their fast-paced and comfortable lifestyles. One day an unexpected surprise surfaces that may alter the loving couples very predictable day to day lives forever. Naomi is dealing with the tormenting demons from her own past; while Ryan is struggling to maintain his own life altering secret. Their marriage will never be the same as their once loving relationship is faced with a perilous downward spiral into an unknown and terrifying outcome.
London Clubland
This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.
